To all the right-wing anti-Purgies

[myrna minx]

172. Good gravy. With all due respect, you've been railing on OWS since the beginning -

desperate to minimize and ridicule from the beginning.

Just because a movement, whether it be small or vast, quiet or loud, that changes many lives doesn't evolve and develop within your framework or within your expectations, doesn't mean it hasn't had a profound impact on THOUSANDS of people.

Occupy Homes in Minneapolis (along with many other cities) stands up for people destroyed corrupt banks that foreclosed on people through dubious and illegal and un-prosecuted robo-signings as well as standing up for the homeless, Occupy Sandy provided much relief to the good people who were devastated by the hurricane, not to mention Rolling Jubilee - the current and ongoing effort to relieve people from predatory student loan debt AND medical debt. But to the dismissive chorus, it's dead in the water. It's never enough. Tell that to the people who have been transformed by discharged medical and or student debt, who have a place to live or received blankets, food and water in the aftermath of a national emergency.

It is baffling why anyone would try to tear down and/or minimize the noble effort who are trying to help others.

Thank goodness someone like Malala Yousafzai doesn't listen to the likes of those who would minimize just one girl trying to go to school.